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Amiibo Prices are Skyrocketing and It Makes Me Feel Pain
a month ago
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a little feature baked into it called "figure fighters" that return from Smash 4, wherein you scan a compatible amiibo (the list of which is massive and includes more than just smash amiibo) and you get a little figure fighter you can train into your own personal bully. Probably better known for videos where people just make them fucking invincible (wow how original) but to get to the point: I'm in deep.
I love amiibo training.
No spirits, no addons, no stat boosts; my amiibo will kick your ass, and then your amiibo's ass, and so on.
It's a fun system to mess with AND surprisingly affordable thanks to non-smash amiibo being able to become figure fighters, thankfully dropping the average price to something out of scalpers grimy hands. Alternatively you could just buy NFC chips and make some fakemiibo for literally dirt cheap- but like... the figures are neat!
It's not bad! 60 dollar game, little 13 dollar figure... what that's like the price of a Skylander, right? Seems fair considering what all you can do with it (for smash exclusively, I don't think any other game actually does anything interesting with amiibo). I mean you can make bosses of them, train them into your own partner in crime, invite them to friends houses and watch your friends squirm because the Doc Is In And He's High As Shit. The best part is I don't even have to fight. I have so many of the shits (mostly fakemiibo with 3d printed bases) that I can host my own tournament by myself. That's neat, right? Please tell me my weird and niche hobby is neat. Say it. Comment it now. It's awesome.please
Kirby Airriders plans to have a similar feature, and while I am effectively gatekept from playing it price-wise (I don't just HAVE 500 dollars lying around for a baby tablet and one game) It gets infinitely worse when you see the price of amiibo now.
13 dollars? We've more than doubled, son. A single amiibo is eying you for 30-40 now. Clearly these aren't just little novelties anymore. Do I get an entire game to come with them? Are they compatible with a lot of games? Can I train a figure fighter for everything now? What about some free NSO? A coin? Some other goodies that can explain why I spent 30 dollars on a plastic figure with an nfc chip inside?
NO, and the Airriders ones? 50.
Fifty fucking dollars.
Nobody in their right mind is paying 50 dollars for a little toy; are you fucking insane? These were 13 dollars before, mind you, and even if its two pieces (the rider and the machine, which can be swapped) but guess what? Skylanders were also 13 dollars, but not just the regulars, the swap-force ones. These also came in two pieces. And before you go "b-bu-but inflation!!" or "but its higher quality and can store more data!" I could buy a bag of 50 NFC chips (the ones Nintendo uses) for 6 dollars, 11 cents each, and even inflated the old price doesn't even come near 50 fucking dollars- have you lost your goddamn mind?
So imagine if you will a world where you pay 80 dollars for a game and then- not just one, but TWO of these little Airriders amiibo, just to play with the swap feature a little, for 100 fucking dollars.
"SOUNDS LIKE AN EXPENSIVE HOBBY"?
FORGET expensive, this is fucking bullshit!! I was thinking for a while that "wow it'd be cool to play airriders and mess with this amiibo shit" before but now like... WHAT THE FUCK?? Now I could still get nfc chips and find my way around it, but at the end of the day this is stupid expensive, and even with NFCs you cant just SWAP the data on them on the fly, you have to scan them on your phone and change the data and then rewrite it and...
Too much! Too... too much.
I really, really hope this bites Nintendo in the ass, clearly whoever is head of making this shit cost more than an actual game is drunk off their ass from the re-released garbage sales and needs a reality check. Once their stupid ass fumbles over the gold-plated keyboard and changes the prices from "you're all idiots" to "liquidate" maybe we'll all get to play a little of the new airride.
Ah, that's right,
Or I could just pirate it.
I love amiibo training.
No spirits, no addons, no stat boosts; my amiibo will kick your ass, and then your amiibo's ass, and so on.
It's a fun system to mess with AND surprisingly affordable thanks to non-smash amiibo being able to become figure fighters, thankfully dropping the average price to something out of scalpers grimy hands. Alternatively you could just buy NFC chips and make some fakemiibo for literally dirt cheap- but like... the figures are neat!
It's not bad! 60 dollar game, little 13 dollar figure... what that's like the price of a Skylander, right? Seems fair considering what all you can do with it (for smash exclusively, I don't think any other game actually does anything interesting with amiibo). I mean you can make bosses of them, train them into your own partner in crime, invite them to friends houses and watch your friends squirm because the Doc Is In And He's High As Shit. The best part is I don't even have to fight. I have so many of the shits (mostly fakemiibo with 3d printed bases) that I can host my own tournament by myself. That's neat, right? Please tell me my weird and niche hobby is neat. Say it. Comment it now. It's awesome.
Kirby Airriders plans to have a similar feature, and while I am effectively gatekept from playing it price-wise (I don't just HAVE 500 dollars lying around for a baby tablet and one game) It gets infinitely worse when you see the price of amiibo now.
13 dollars? We've more than doubled, son. A single amiibo is eying you for 30-40 now. Clearly these aren't just little novelties anymore. Do I get an entire game to come with them? Are they compatible with a lot of games? Can I train a figure fighter for everything now? What about some free NSO? A coin? Some other goodies that can explain why I spent 30 dollars on a plastic figure with an nfc chip inside?
NO, and the Airriders ones? 50.
Fifty fucking dollars.
Nobody in their right mind is paying 50 dollars for a little toy; are you fucking insane? These were 13 dollars before, mind you, and even if its two pieces (the rider and the machine, which can be swapped) but guess what? Skylanders were also 13 dollars, but not just the regulars, the swap-force ones. These also came in two pieces. And before you go "b-bu-but inflation!!" or "but its higher quality and can store more data!" I could buy a bag of 50 NFC chips (the ones Nintendo uses) for 6 dollars, 11 cents each, and even inflated the old price doesn't even come near 50 fucking dollars- have you lost your goddamn mind?
So imagine if you will a world where you pay 80 dollars for a game and then- not just one, but TWO of these little Airriders amiibo, just to play with the swap feature a little, for 100 fucking dollars.
"SOUNDS LIKE AN EXPENSIVE HOBBY"?
FORGET expensive, this is fucking bullshit!! I was thinking for a while that "wow it'd be cool to play airriders and mess with this amiibo shit" before but now like... WHAT THE FUCK?? Now I could still get nfc chips and find my way around it, but at the end of the day this is stupid expensive, and even with NFCs you cant just SWAP the data on them on the fly, you have to scan them on your phone and change the data and then rewrite it and...
Too much! Too... too much.
I really, really hope this bites Nintendo in the ass, clearly whoever is head of making this shit cost more than an actual game is drunk off their ass from the re-released garbage sales and needs a reality check. Once their stupid ass fumbles over the gold-plated keyboard and changes the prices from "you're all idiots" to "liquidate" maybe we'll all get to play a little of the new airride.
Ah, that's right,
Or I could just pirate it.
